Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus crisis in India and other parts of the world on Wednesday.
12:01 p.m.
Puducherry added 127 fresh cases of COVID-19 during the last 24 hours ending 10 am on Wednesday, pushing up the gross to 41,468.
11:45 a.m.
The Pernem and Calangute police in North Goa district have so far this year caught 2,957 people without wearing masks on beaches and collected Rs 5.86 lakh as fine from them, officials said on Wednesday.
11:22 a.m.
South Africa will ban sale of alcohol and restrict religious gatherings for the four-day Easter weekend starting on Friday to prevent the holiday from contributing to a possible spike in COVID-19 infections, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced.
10:51 a.m.
As many as 53,480 fresh infections pushed India”s COVID-19 tally to 1,21,49,335, while 354 new fatalities, the highest single-day spike so far this year, took the death toll to 1,62,468, according to Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday.
10:47 a.m.
India”s drug regulator DCGI has extended the shelf life of Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, from six to nine months from its manufacturing date.
10:17 a.m.
Thane has added 3,135 new cases of coronavirus, raising the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 3,15,840, an official said on Wednesday.
10:01 a.m.
Mizoram”s COVID-19 caseload mounted to 4,473 on Wednesday after five people, including an 81-year-old woman, tested positive for the virus, an official said.
9:54 a.m.
India’s economy has bounced back amazingly from the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown over the last one year, but it is not out of the woods yet, according to the World Bank, which in its latest report has predicted that the country”s real GDP growth for fiscal year 21/22 could range from 7.5 to 12.5 per cent.
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